Worthington Chauncey Ford

Boston: Northeastern University Press, 2001. Hardcover. VG/VG. Sage cloth boards, sage DJ with color portrait. XV, 247 pp. 10 BW illustrations. From jacket: Worthington Chauncey Ford (1858-1941) was ...a pioneer in the acquisition of American historical documents, and the most prolific historian-editor in American history, publishing over 260 articles, essays, and books in his lengthy career. A college dropout, he became one of the nation's most distinguished historians and was elected president of the American Historical Association in 1917. A reference (truncated) for historians, documentary editors, librarians, archivists, and researchers, this volume recounts the considerable contributions of the "Prince of Editors. -from the jacket. (Inventory #: 131006)